Realization Quotes - Page 32

• It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants
  of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the
  realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and
  abstruse books of philosophy.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Country, Philosophy, Book

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• Let every nation, right now, do what is best for all citizens of the world: eliminate every form of intervention that would prevent or otherwise hobble mutually beneficial trade between any two parties anywhere in the world. No bureaucracy can help us toward that goal; it must come from a growing realization of the merit of freedom itself.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Party, Two, Goal

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• One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires - and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.

  Thomas Sowell

  Reading, People, Leader

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• Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission.

  Robin Sharma

  Goal, Excellence, Path

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• Investors should pay attention not only to whether but also to why current holdings are undervalued. It is critical to know why you have made an investment and to sell when the reason for owning it no longer applies. Look for investments with catalysts that may assist directly in the realization of underlying value. Give reference to companies having good managements with a personal financial stake in the business. Finally, diversify your holdings and hedge when it is financially attractive to do so.

  Seth Klarman

  Giving, Good Man, Attention

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• Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Spiritual, Grace, Growth

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2015

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• Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.

  Renee Fleming

  Opposites, Practice, Important

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.56, Penguin

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• We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Ideas, Perfect

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• Some of the most profound realizations that I came to about health did not derive from medicine, but derived from surfing.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Medicine, Profound, Surfing

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• Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails-our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Mistake, Struggle

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

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• True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion does not consist in erecting temples, or building churches, or attending public worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organizations. Religion consists in realization. We must realize God, feel God, see God, talk to God. That is religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Organization, Soul

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• And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.

  Terence McKenna

  Civilization, Childhood, Passing Away

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• The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants.

  Winston Churchill

  Faithful Servants, Earth, May

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• The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Love itself is the actual form of God. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is everything.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Love Is, Self

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• There is profound responsibility in being Love... more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they'd be crushed by the realization of it.

  Adyashanti

  Responsibility, Impact, Profound

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• The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

  Sarah Dessen

  Memories, Perfect, Cracks

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• It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

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• MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

  Douglas Coupland

  School, Twenties, Inability

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn’t weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Self, Long

  "When Stars Collide". www.out.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Humans, Sufficient, Human Beings

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• If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

  John Dewey

  Demand, Ends, Method

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1988). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.367, SIU Press

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• When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

  Garrison Keillor

  Ambition, Long, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Giving, Vivid, Abu Ghraib

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• It was a realization for me when Oprah was talking about New Moon. I was like, "Oh, my god, she's watched a movie that I've been in!" People were like, "It just kicked in for you?," but it's just work for me. The idea that somebody that I've admired for so long had seen something that I'd done was when I understood the magnitude of it.

  Tinsel Korey

  Moon, Talking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked about the last scene. It was interesting because it was split right down the middle, 50/50. About half the audience wanted it to end with the very emotional scene between Clive and Liana, and that feeling of realization and catharsis. And, the other half were adamant about keeping that last scene.

  David Schwimmer

  Emotional, Interesting, Parent

  Source: collider.com

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